Blockchain is rapidly becoming the technological darling in the worlds of FinTech and established finance alike. In this session, Eoin Woods gives an overview of blockchain fundamentals as well as how to create an application that uses Java enterprise technology with Ethereum’s blockchain.

We started the year with a series of tech nightmares to keep you on your toes, but now it’s time to have a look at the most promising trends for 2019.

The general availability is about a month away and that means it is time for the RC phase! The stabilization repository, jdk/jdk12, is now open for P1 bug fixes and there’s some important information you should keep in mind. Let’s have a look.

February 11th is the International Day of Women and Girls in Science. Computer science has traditionally been a field dominated by men, however women around the world are making strides to close the gender gap. Let’s look at some of the advice and stories we have heard over the years about how to succeed as a woman in STEM.

Every Monday, we take a step back and look at all the cool stuff that went down during the previous week. Last week, we had many new releases, including Angular v8 beta.3, JUnit 5.4 and many more.

JUnit 5 released with much fanfare, and the updates just keep on coming. Now, the latest version 5.4.0 adds some new features, bug fixes, and breaking changes. Come see what’s been added and improved upon. New to JUnit 5? There’s no better time than now to upgrade and start with this popular unit testing framework.

Checking in on IntelliJ IDEA 2019! It’s time to say hello to the all-new IntelliJ thread. Kicking off the new month, IntelliJ IDEA 2019.1 EAP3 brings some very interesting updates including early access to IntelliJ IDEA with the new JetBrains Runtime 11.

How far can Blockchain go and what is next? In this session, Barbara Mellish shares her insights, learnings and future aspirations to achieve total value in finance in Blockchain.

The beta season for Angular v8 began in mid-January and we’re eager to see the final result. The fourth beta is already here so as soon as all the betas are out and the next milestone (RC period) is reached, v8 will be released.

What’s the state of the Clojure ecosystem in 2019? According to Clojure’s annual survey, Clojure devs are still in love with Java 8 and use it for web development and open source. We take a closer look at the 2019 results to see what’s really going on in this functional programming language.

So far 2019 is off to a good start, especially for fans of open source software! Just like we do every month, we’ve gone through GitHub’s trending list to find some of the best and most noteworthy projects to showcase for January 2019. So come on in from the cold, bundle up, and see what we found.

We are almost a month away from the general availability of JDK 12 but it is already time to move forward! The development repositories for JDK 13 are open and today we take a look at a new JEP candidate.

The weather outside is frightful, but the top 10 Java stories from January are absolutely delightful. Grab a hot drink and get cozy as we take a look at what you were reading last month: Python and JavaScript IDEs, Go Micro for microservices, SQL tricks, OpenJDK builds, and more!

We kicked off the new year with a poll about the programming languages that will be relevant to you in 2019. Now it’s time to put the spotlight on Java and take a closer look at its ecosystem. Today, we’re taking a closer look at the Java frameworks that you have used extensively in 2018 or, if you are new to this scene, what framework you plan to use this year.